Scaled sculpin

Scaled sculpins
Icelus spatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Cottidae
Subfamily:	Cottinae
Genus:	Icelus Krøyer, 1845
Species
See text.

Scaled sculpins (genus Icelus) are a group of small benthic fishes (up to 25 cm) living in cold waters. They are mainly found in the North Pacific, with some species in the North Atlantic. They are characterized by a large, laterally compressed head and small spines. The lateral line is present and the dorsal fin base are dotted with scutes (plates).

In FishBase^[1] and Nelson^[2] the genus is included in the family Cottidae of sculpins but in some classifications it is raised to its own family, Icelidae Berg, 1940.

The 17 recognized species in this genus are:^[3]

• Icelus armatus (P. J. Schmidt, 1916)
• Icelus bicornis (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1840) (twohorn sculpin)
• Icelus canaliculatus C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (blacknose sculpin)
• Icelus cataphractus (Pavlenko, 1910)
• Icelus ecornis Tsutsui & Yabe, 1996
• Icelus euryops Bean, 1890
• Icelus gilberti Taranetz, 1936
• Icelus mandibularis Yabe, 1983
• Icelus ochotensis P. J. Schmidt, 1927
• Icelus perminovi Taranetz, 1936 (scaly-belly sculpin)
• Icelus rastrinoides Taranetz, 1936
• Icelus sekii Tsuruoka, Munehara & Yabe, 2006
• Icelus spatula C. H. Gilbert & Burke, 1912 (spatulate sculpin)
• Icelus spiniger C. H. Gilbert, 1896 (thorny sculpin)
• Icelus stenosomus Andriashev, 1937
• Icelus toyamensis (Matsubara & Iwai, 1951)
• Icelus uncinalis C. H. Gilbert & Burke, 1912

Wikidata ☰ Q748308 entry

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